The Asian Modern

Professor John Clark,Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship for five years 2008-2012, working on re-defining concepts of Asian Modernity on Art through historical analyses of the work of around twenty-five artists in five cohorts of five each between the 1850s and 1980s across Asia. This Fellowship also funds a Junior Lectureship in Asian Art for five years.

Greater Angkor Project III - 2010-2114

Australian Research Council (Discovery Project): Professor Roland Fletcher, Professor Jeffery Riegel, Dr Martin KingFunding: AUD907,493Partners: Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient (EFEO), University of Hawai’i-Manoa, National University of Singapore, Royal University of Fine Arts, Cambodia, Authority for the Protection and Management of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap (APSARA)

Summary: Angkor, the vast low-density Khmer capital founded in the 9th century CE, was abandoned some time in the past 500 years. The processes, rate and period of its demise are still unknown. The project will identify (i) the ancestry of Angkor’s social and spatial organisation in the first millennium BCE, (ii) the way the urban complex operated to diagnose (iii) why, when and how it was abandoned and reveal the transformations from the 16th to 19th centuries that created the modern landscape out of 3000 years of cultural continuity.

Projects 2008

Asian-Australian Art NowIn association with Asia-Australia Arts Centre in SydneyA gathering of key artisits, arts administrators, writers, theorists and curators from around the country in an open workshop discussing what constitutes Asian-Australian art now.

Chinese Buddhist Art: New Directions & PerspectivesIn conjunction with the Lost Buddhas exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

Projects 2009

Artist-Run-Initiatives in the Asia-PacificIn association with Asia-Australia Arts Centre in SydneyDiscussion Panel with Ade Darmawan (Jakarta) and Aaron Seeto (Sydney)

War Art and the Representation of War in the Asia-PacificA free one-day workshop at the University of Sydney presented by the Australian Centre for Asian Art and Archaeology University of Sydney and the Research School of Humanities, Australian National University with the support of the Japan Foundation.August 2009War Art Workshop Programme